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Münchner Merkur

German newspaper
Organization periodical Q279832
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Summary

Münchner Merkur is a periodical[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of periodical entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (763 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Bundesverband Deutscher Zeitungsverleger[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Bavaria[4]
  • Country: Germany[5]
  • Instance of: daily newspaper[6], online newspaper[7], website[8]
  • Editor: Dirk Ippen[9]
  • Headquarters location: Munich[10]
  • Place of publication: Munich[11]
  • Commons category: Münchner Merkur[12]
  • Language of work or name: German[13]
  • Industry: digital journalism[14], news website[15], media company[16]
  • Inception: 1946[17]
  • Parent organization or unit: Ippen Digital[18]
  • Official website: https://www.merkur.de[19]
  • Main subject: politics[20], economy[21], local news[22], consumer[23]
  • Employees: 1200[24]
  • Legal form: GmbH & Co. KG[25]
  • Title: Münchner Merkur[26]
  • Editor-in-chief: Georg Anastasiadis[27]
  • Social media followers: 19,500[28], 150,231[29], 27,200[30], 31,230[31]

Why It Matters

Münchner Merkur has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Related Entities

daily newspaper Germany online newspaper politics website

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . merkur.de. merkur.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . German Union Catalogue of Serials. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [3] ↑ . bdzv.zv-online.de. Retrieved . bdzv.zv-online.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . merkurtz.media. merkurtz.media. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · Gymnicus · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Industry → digital journalism, news website, media company
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Industry: digital journalism, Moving to Q140896335"
  2. 14w ago · Shisma · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Domain name → merkur.de
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Domain name: merkur.de, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1783157205909"
  3. 15w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Osm name suggestion index id → munchnermerkur-a242c5
    Zdb id → —
    Media bias/fact check id → munchner-merkur-bias
    Language of work or name → German
    + 71 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14536: 339414, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782398664614"
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